8:45 am Recognizing Contest Winners

9:00 am Breakout Sessions: Winners' Presentations and Expert Panels

This year's contest winners will present their high-impact proposals on how to tackle specific climate change challenges and engage with leaders in the field to help accelerate the development and adoption of the ideas. Topics to be discussed include reducing emissions from transportation, how communities can adapt to climate change, how the United States can implement a price on carbon emissions, and many more. See the 2015 contest themes.

11:00 am - 11:50 am

12:00 pm Community Lunch

Mingle with Climate CoLab winners and other experts and attendees over lunch. Tables will feature topics so that people with similar interests can sit together.

1:30 pm Interactive Workshop

Meet and work with the Climate CoLab winners, build teams for future Climate CoLab proposals, and engage in deeper conversations with other attendees about how the world's experts and citizens can work together to solve the complicated problem of climate change.

Attendees will be given the opportunity to move freely between discussion topics as well as generate their own. Topics could include, but are not limited to:

Sector-specific challenges and opportunities, such as financing the global response to climate change, scaling renewable energy technologies in developing countries, and carbon pricing

Leveraging crowds to address other complex societal issues, such as the remaining three Solve pillars: education, healthcare, and infrastructure/economic opportunity

Facilitated by Bob Halperin, president of Alumni Forum Services and Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.

Break with snacks & refreshments

4:45 pm Announcing the 2015 Grand Prize Winner

Following a break with food and beverages, the Climate CoLab 2015 Grand Prize winner will be announced and awarded a $10,000 cash prize.

4:50 pm Solve Roundtable: Fuel

Join an interactive livestream of Solve's expert panel discussion on the challenges to double energy and food production, halve carbon output by 2050, and set a path to net-zero carbon emissions by 2100. Whether providing energy to rapidly developing industrial countries or powering the infrastructure of an increasingly technology-driven economy, global energy demands continue to grow. How do we generate and store energy from cleaner sources? How will we provide food and clean water sustainably to 9.6 billion people? How do we mitigate the impact of climate change now and in the future?

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Turning Inspiration into Action

In this closing session, we will identify and accumulate the key takeaways from the day and recap the connections, insights and new actions you and others will take to help advance the global response to climate change.

Climate CoLab has teamed up with Solve CoLab to run this contest. To participate, click "OK" below. When you save your proposal, you'll be able to see and make changes to it on either site – all edits and comments will be synced between the two platforms. We'll even create a linked account so you can log into Solve CoLab with your Climate CoLab username and password. It's easy!